Born: Sydney, Australia Home: Bondi Beach (in a run-down house with 3 mates) Educated: Formally at Bondi Beach Public and Dover Heights High School finishing without a UAI in 2001.
Informally by my semi-alternate musician mum and dad Shiney and Michael, and rock solid stepmum Liz. Ancestry: Mainly British (including a few convicts), Grandad was from Cornwall. Does: Too much study, meditation, wastes time on internet, plays a djembe (not very well yet). Enjoys: Food, music, conversation, dancing, surfing, peace, nature, books, learning. Partnered: Yes, two years with my beautiful girl Holly. Paid work: After School care @ Bondi Beach Aspirations: To be a happy (content) person and help other people be happy (content) people. Words of Wisdom: "You must be the change you want to see in the world" Mohandas (Mahatma) Ghandi. Taken from http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mahatma_Gandhi/
Video: This video talks about something i'm pretty excited about called systems thinking (deep ecology, principles of ecology). Its starting to find a place in education, there is a particularly cool organisation called the Centre for Ecoliteracy www.**ecoliteracy**.org/who are doing great things in the Californian school system. This is the literacy that I would like to see developed in our children, and myself for that matter.
Ella Blossom
Sikkim, India
Born: Windsor, Australia Home: Currently... Marrickville, with two friends I have known all my life. Formal Education: Bilpin Primary School; Colo High School, Hawkesbury (finishing without a UAI in 2003); Tertiary Prep. Course (Richmond and Kograh Tafe 2005); B.E. Primary Ed., UTS Kuringai Campus (2006); B.E. Primary Ed., Sydney Uni. (2007 - Ongoing) . Does: Self-indulge, change my hair regularly, obsess, worry, take action, care, create, get angry, be righteous, speak out, love, make the same mistakes over and over, learn (gradually, eventually, continually). Enjoys: Challenge, love, food, freedom, change, music, dancing, creating, company, the world, books, travel, nature. Paid work: Whatever I can get. Aspirations: To find passion again, affect/effect change and help the disadvantaged (ambiguous) achieve their hopes/wants/needs/goals/happiness. What led me here? From high school I went on to teach English in China at the age of 18. My time in China was incredibly rewarding and challenging. I felt i had a great deal to offer and came to realise that I also had a great deal more to learn before I could competently step in front of a class and give my ALL to the maximum advantage of those around me.
Below is the You Tube Clip "Shift Happens" from our first Sem. 2 '09 EDUP3006 lecture.
Helen Sorour:
Thredbo 2009
me in my element, skiing!
About me- Helen Sorour:
country of birth: South africa
favourite music: Rock,alternative and anything old and classic...generally love all music
places I have travelled to:USA- Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, Boston, Florida, California, Buffalo. Australia- Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide. United Arab emirates- Dubai. South Africa- Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, East London, Botswana
My favourite place so far: Cape Town, New York, Dubai and Sydney, Johannesburg (because it is where i grew up)
Family demographics: I have a younger brother, Greg a Mom, Sharon and a Dad, Cecil. We all live together in a little big house in Castle Hill
Favourite books: The picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, Cry the beloved country, Life of pie,Twilight series
Inspirational quotes: "Some people come into our lives and quickly go, others stay awhile, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same."
"Actual life is chaos, yet there is something terribly logic in the imagination"
" Hope is the key rack on which i hang my dreams on"
Partnered: yes, currently in a relationship with my fantastic partner Joshua Bowes. Very happy and willing to stay in it for life :)
Mahli Hawke
Born: Sydney, Australia
Home: Bondi Beach (in a run-down house with 3 mates)
Educated: Formally at Bondi Beach Public and Dover Heights High School finishing without a UAI in 2001.
Informally by my semi-alternate musician mum and dad Shiney and Michael, and rock solid stepmum Liz.
Ancestry: Mainly British (including a few convicts), Grandad was from Cornwall.
Does: Too much study, meditation, wastes time on internet, plays a djembe (not very well yet).
Enjoys: Food, music, conversation, dancing, surfing, peace, nature, books, learning.
Partnered: Yes, two years with my beautiful girl Holly.
Paid work: After School care @ Bondi Beach
Aspirations: To be a happy (content) person and help other people be happy (content) people.
Words of Wisdom: "You must be the change you want to see in the world" Mohandas (Mahatma) Ghandi. Taken from http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mahatma_Gandhi/
Video: This video talks about something i'm pretty excited about called systems thinking (deep ecology, principles of ecology). Its starting to find a place in education, there is a particularly cool organisation called the Centre for Ecoliteracy www.**ecoliteracy**.org/ who are doing great things in the Californian school system. This is the literacy that I would like to see developed in our children, and myself for that matter.
Ella Blossom
Sikkim, IndiaBorn: Windsor, Australia
Home: Currently... Marrickville, with two friends I have known all my life.
Formal Education: Bilpin Primary School; Colo High School, Hawkesbury (finishing without a UAI in 2003); Tertiary Prep. Course (Richmond and Kograh Tafe 2005); B.E. Primary Ed., UTS Kuringai Campus (2006); B.E. Primary Ed., Sydney Uni. (2007 - Ongoing) .
Does: Self-indulge, change my hair regularly, obsess, worry, take action, care, create, get angry, be righteous, speak out, love, make the same mistakes over and over, learn (gradually, eventually, continually).
Enjoys: Challenge, love, food, freedom, change, music, dancing, creating, company, the world, books, travel, nature.
Paid work: Whatever I can get.
Aspirations: To find passion again, affect/effect change and help the disadvantaged (ambiguous) achieve their hopes/wants/needs/goals/happiness.
What led me here? From high school I went on to teach English in China at the age of 18. My time in China was incredibly rewarding and challenging. I felt i had a great deal to offer and came to realise that I also had a great deal more to learn before I could competently step in front of a class and give my ALL to the maximum advantage of those around me.
Below is the You Tube Clip "Shift Happens" from our first Sem. 2 '09 EDUP3006 lecture.
Helen Sorour:
Thredbo 2009
About me- Helen Sorour:country of birth: South africa
favourite music: Rock,alternative and anything old and classic...generally love all music
places I have travelled to: USA- Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, Boston, Florida, California, Buffalo. Australia- Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide. United Arab emirates- Dubai. South Africa- Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, East London, Botswana
My favourite place so far: Cape Town, New York, Dubai and Sydney, Johannesburg (because it is where i grew up)
Family demographics: I have a younger brother, Greg a Mom, Sharon and a Dad, Cecil. We all live together in a little big house in Castle Hill
Favourite books: The picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, Cry the beloved country, Life of pie,Twilight series
Inspirational quotes: "Some people come into our lives and quickly go, others stay awhile, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same."
"Actual life is chaos, yet there is something terribly logic in the imagination"
" Hope is the key rack on which i hang my dreams on"
Partnered: yes, currently in a relationship with my fantastic partner Joshua Bowes. Very happy and willing to stay in it for life :)